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Monday, 8 June 2015

A lot of authors have inspired me through-out my many
years of reading. I have found sadness the words of John Green, thrill in the
words of Dan Brown and Love in the words of Shakespear .But of all the writers
I have read my favorite has to be Margret Atwood.

Margret Atwood on November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Canada.
She is a Canadian poet,
novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. And has been
awarded and shortlisted for many high esteemed literary critics
awards such as : Arthur
C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, the Booker Prize in which she has won five times, Governor General's Award. After discovering her
passion for writing at the age of 15 Atwood went on to study English at the
Victoria College at the University of Toronto. She then went on to receive a
masters degree from Radcliffe College

Full list of publication
Thorough-out her lengthy carer as an author Margret Atwood has published many novels and stories which are stated bellow .

Notes Towards a Poem that Can Never be Written; Salamader Press, 1981.

Snake Poems; Salamander Press, 1983.

Fiction:

Encounters with the Element Man; Concord, New Hampshire, Ewert, 1982.

Unearthing Suite; Grand Union Press, 1983.

Bottle; Hay Festival, 2004.

I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth; The Walrus / Coach House Press, 2012.

Bellow is an Extract from one of my favorite novels by this author: The Handmaid's

Tale

Excerpt

I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will . . . Now the flesh arranges itself differently. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping.

This is one of my favorite quotes from the book even though the whole book is basically a pro- feminist campaign I think this is bit the drives the key idea. I think I like it so much because I connect with it on some many levels . I feel as a woman, and especially in my African culture, I have some many plans for my life but then I am told that theses plans have to be put on hold because my duty is to be a wife and a mother. I envy the vivid imagery and the symbolic metaphors that Atwood uses in the piece; they truly are exceptional

Rating System

Miss: If you see this book look the other way
Mate: I think you better stick to boys cause this was bad
Kiss: This was okay. But a date would be better
Date: Boys who? This book was amazing
Rape: No need for boys ever again! this book should be devoured